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08 Oct 2015 20:27:51
Me and a mate were talking about the possibility of alien's coming to earth and he said "I hope not ' I asked why and he said, "because if they do there's only two things they want us for, food or slaves"
I thought well possibly he could be right but I'm a little more optimistic about things if and when it ever happens.

08 Oct 2015 20:00:48
As someone who feels the chances of their not being life on other planets pretty remote and it extremely possible that at least a few of them would be more advanced than us so I'm very interested in this and a few other subjects alone similar lines so am in no way trying to deliberately debunk the footage or its integrity but surely if a story was suppressed nationally it would make sense to stop it going regional and there for world wide.

08 Oct 2015 19:08:27
True but some of the stuff I've seen and found extremely interesting I can't help but think would have made national news not just local, its difficult to understand why it would be broadcast world wide but only regionally in the UK.
Obviously surprising the story doesn't cover it because its hardly a secret

08 Oct 2015 11:57:09
Regional presenters? If you lived in the east midland region you wouldn't be familiar with Scottish newsreaders.

14 Aug 2015 19:45:10
Ah I like a good wonder around.

14 Aug 2015 17:20:17
Depends what your shopping for. I'm now at the stage where its more funerals than weddings.

14 Aug 2015 16:49:14
Any excuse to visit the shops is a good thing. It has been many years since I've been to a Russian wedding so things have probably changed. My own was all a blur.

14 Aug 2015 15:05:09
I also believe congratulations are in order.

13 Aug 2015 22:20:47
Originally it was tough, there was sexism of course and other incidents in mixed units. Then the propaganda machine realised it could milk it so some were feted. A number did win our highest decoration. So it was a bit of a mix. They come in and out of vogue I suppose but as a girl growing up there was only really them and cosmonauts like Valentina Tereshkova to look up to.

Stalingrad was hell. The film Enemy at the Gates is mostly realistic especially at the start. My fathers unit went in with a rifle for every 3 man.

13 Aug 2015 17:59:49
Yes quite scary though. There was an all woman tank as well I seem to remember and some famous women snipers.

13 Aug 2015 16:42:09
As your interested in world war two history have you ever looked at the role of women in the red army?

12 Aug 2015 20:55:11
Your welcome, one is never too old to learn. Samovars' and Sophie school? Or Russian sports?

Have you ever considered a holiday to Russia?

12 Aug 2015 17:29:28
It is indeed. I have enjoyed this chat.

12 Aug 2015 11:01:15
I was never one of the hard liners, back 91 I was in the Gorbachev camp of economic reforms and less centralisation. My boss was a hardliner and one of the gang of 8. That was a heated discussion. I kept myself out of things as I know it wouldn't work but then we got Yeltsin instead. And then Putin.

It does work on a small scale but the problem is someone will always envy what someone else has, someone will always try to cheat the system so they get more and power will always corrupt.

There's a che Guevara quote I'm trying to remember, might need to pay google a visit, about true socialism.

12 Aug 2015 08:01:24
Philby made his choice based on ideology. He recognised the flaws in capitalism and thought communism was the better way. In principle it is, in practice it isn't because Marx was only concerned with the economic side of things and forgot human nature.

But the best ones are the ones who do it for principle, ideology, they believe something. The worst are the ones in it for money, personal gain drives a lot of people (Marx didn't take that into consideration) and then you have those after the glory, seen too many James Bond films, have a need to show there a hero. Like our friend Putin.

I am a patriot. Its too deeply ingrained. The other night watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy the anthem came on and I was half way out of my seat.

Regards Sophie scholl she's pretty much unknown in Britain so I wasn't surprised but at least you knew the white rose. Again its that courage of conviction, she knew the end result yet did it anyway.

11 Aug 2015 21:11:45
The winters are terrible, makes me laugh how you have an inch and England grinds to a halt. Survival training was nasty. But the snow hid the dirt.

There were several sports clubs in the soviet era, most famous dynamo, as in Moscow, Kiev, Minsk etc. The army team was cska, the nkvd team was spartak.

As for Philby yes here he's a traitor but I think to play a role for 30 years took a lot. A nice man even if he was treated shabbily.

I needed a name and it was that or famous cosmonauts, who can be difficult to pronounce, or Sophie scholl but thought she'd be too obscure.

11 Aug 2015 16:50:44
Cycling you get to see all the different scenery. Cricket is quintessentially English. And my namesake was a big fan.

Winter sports obviously, skiing, ice hockey, anything involving ice and snow. Tennis as we do have a few players around especially in the women's game, football obviously as well but its a summer game of course due to the winters, don't think the overpaid prima donnas could handle January in Sverdlovsk or Omsk. Chess is popular, again lot of Russian grand masters.

11 Aug 2015 13:46:33
It was a good meeting place. There was a wonderful sense of irony in corrupting the British establishment at a place like Lords. I have found the recent games with australia thoroughly compelling. Also I've gotten into cycling recently with the tour de France.

11 Aug 2015 13:26:01
Your welcome. Never really been a fan of sports in general. Used to play tennis and most of the other racquet based games, needed to stay in shape for all these western fashions, with the big shoulder pads. Got into cricket a bit.

11 Aug 2015 08:02:13
Google. Was looking for something on conspiracies. I was looking something up and this was one of the links.